Title: "Frog Friar" - 2014 Size: 27" x 37" Medium: poplar wood, sand, acrylic & oil paints
Most of us have heard the concept of 'boiling the frog':
"Throw him in hot water, he will jump right out. - Place him in cool water, slowly turn up the heat... and he will soon boil).
My attempt with this piece (and "Squatch") was to again speak about the woes of our petroleum controlled culture. By simulating a time-laden artifact, and emulating the stylistic vernacular of a bygone culture (in this case Sumerian/Mesopotamian art) I was aiming at presenting this contemporary issue within a historical packaging/perspective - ("meaning by association").
I was hoping to suggest that we might see our ways from sort of a promontory…. as though looking back from a future perspective at remnants of this primitive (and hopefully soon "bygone petroleum-based") culture of ours.
Most of us have heard the concept of 'boiling the frog':
"Throw him in hot water, he will jump right out. - Place him in cool water, slowly turn up the heat... and he will soon boil).
My attempt with this piece (and "Squatch") was to again speak about the woes of our petroleum controlled culture. By simulating a time-laden artifact, and emulating the stylistic vernacular of a bygone culture (in this case Sumerian/Mesopotamian art) I was aiming at presenting this contemporary issue within a historical packaging/perspective - ("meaning by association").
I was hoping to suggest that we might see our ways from sort of a promontory…. as though looking back from a future perspective at remnants of this primitive (and hopefully soon "bygone petroleum-based") culture of ours.